Melchior Aymerich

Melchior Aymerich (5 January 1754-11 October 1836) was a Spanish general who served as President of the Real Audiencia of Quito from April to May 1822 during the Ecuadorian War of Independence.

Biography
Melchior Aymerich was born in Ceuta, Spain in 1754, and he entered the Spanish Army as a cadet in 1762. He took part in a landing in Algiers in 1775, in the 1777 expedition to conquer Sacramento on the River Plate from Portugal, and in the French Revolutionary Wars after 1793. In 1802, he was named military commander of Cuenca in Ecuador, and he applied himself to the suppression of a revolutionary junta in Quita in 1809. He was a talented royalist general during the South American Wars of Liberation, and he served as the interim president of Quito from 1816 to 1817; in 1822, he was finally defeated by Antonio Jose de Sucre at the Battle of Pichincha. He surrendered Quito to the patriots after this defeat, and he was the last Spanish governor of Quito. He died in Havana, Cuba in 1836.